Online Computer Terms Dictionary - F

font

<text> A set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from some
particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each
character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a
higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an outline font).

There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely
known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript font definitions and Apple's
TrueType. Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print
them.